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The Emancipation Proclamation was a law passed in order to free all of the slaves in the states that still had slaves.
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This was put in place to help black and white slaves from slavery to a life allowing freedom
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A group that was started as a social group and later turned into the terrorist group we know today.
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The fourteenth amendment was passed so that all people would have equal rights. Also the southern states stronly protested this amendment but were forced to agree in order to gain representation in congress.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 guaranteed that African American were provided with equal treatment in public places a dn were aloud to participate in jury duty.
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Rutherford B. Hayes became the new president.
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Tuskegee University was founded by many different African Americans. This college was founded for the sole purpose that African Americans would be aloud to gain a higher education.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was overturned du to the fact that it was believed to be uncostitutional.
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This speech was a precurser to the Atlanta compromise. Booker T. Washington delivered this speech in Atlanta, Georgia.
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on June 7, 1892 an African American man was put in jail for sitting in th ewhite car on a train. He felt that this was unconstitutional, but the supreme court disagreed with him.
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The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was founded so that all rights were provided that were guaranteed in the 13,14 and15 amendment.
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President Woodrow Wilson attended a film that made the Klu Klux Klan seem like they were some group of noble people trying to fight off the so horrific African Americans when in reality the Klan were the ones that were doing all the terrorizing.
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A war where blacks and whites fought side by side with French soldiers just like comrads.
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Thirteen men are imprisoned and without being told their snetences or the date of their execution until days befor they where hung. These men were denied the right to an appeal to the president.
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This was a case in which the defendent's mob-dominated trials did not give them due process which is gauranteed by the fourteenth amendment.
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Stock Market crashed. Jobs were lost and the value of the dollar plummeted.
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Nine black teens were riding on a train and some white boys accused the blacks of beating them and two white grils accused the boys of rape. Later at a retrial the women confessed that that reape story was a fabrication, but the black boys were still found guilty and were again found guilty for four of the nine defendants.
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A war including 43 or more countries fighting a tyrant named Adolf Hitler who wanted "the perfect race". Hitler killed many people and eventually killed himself with his lover to avoid capture.
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Irene Morgan was arrested for not giving up a seat on a bus which was a state law. Morgan was jailed but later in 1946 she was taken to supreme court and the law was ruled as unconstitutional.
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Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in the Major Leagues.
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The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools violated the fourteenth amendment. The amendment states that no one can be denied protection of the laws.
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An estimated quarter of a million people, one fourth of whome were white, marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, in what was a protest and a communal celebration.
